Month: July 2021

In the U.S.

No tears for war criminals: Donald Rumsfeld was U.S. torturer-in-chief

July 5, 2021 Stephen Millies
For the people of Iraq, Donald Rumsfeld was their Hitler. The former Pentagon boss killed over a million people in Iraq. The country is still occupied by Big Oil. Nobody in Iraq is mourning Rumsfeld, […]
Around the world

Is Peru on the verge of a coup?

July 4, 2021 Alejandra Garcia
One month after holding the run-off election, Peru still has no President-elect. The winning candidate, leftist Pedro Castillo, hasn’t assumed the country’s leadership yet because the Peruvian right-wing insists that widespread election fraud has taken […]
Capitalist crisis

Fight attacks on unemployed workers coast to coast!

July 3, 2021 Scott Scheffer
July 2 — Governors of 26 U.S. states have opted to reject federal benefits for unemployed workers that were enacted in March 2021 as part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act. […]
LGBTQ+

LGBTQ2S liberation: Discussion with author Bob McCubbin

July 3, 2021 Struggle - La Lucha
Bob McCubbin is a lifelong revolutionary activist, Socialist Unity Party member and author of the book, “The Social Evolution of Humanity: Marx and Engels were right!” This study of the evolution of humanity focuses on […]
Fight racism

Consuewella Africa, presente!

July 2, 2021 Mumia Abu-Jamal
For many, the name Consuewella Africa is like many of the Africas: about interchangeable, for unless you spent time with them, how could you know them? Consuewella, called Swella by her MOVE brothers and sisters, […]
China

China pulls itself out of poverty 100 years into its revolution

July 2, 2021 Vijay Prashad and John Ross
On February 25, 2021, China’s President Xi Jinping announced that his country of 1.4 billion people had pulled its people out of poverty as it is defined internationally. Since 1981, 853 million Chinese people have lifted themselves out of poverty thanks […]
China

Happy birthday to China’s Communist Party!

July 1, 2021 Stephen Millies
The Chinese Communist Party was born a century ago on July 1, 1921. Several dozen courageous revolutionaries came to Shanghai to start building a party that led China out of its misery. At that time, […]
Cuba

Longshore union backs Cuba’s fight against U.S. blockade

July 1, 2021 Cheryl LaBash
A National Network On Cuba press conference on the eve of the June 23 United Nations General Assembly vote urged the U.S. to “Vote Yes” on the “Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial […]
Cuba

Baltimore joins world demand to end Cuba blockade

July 1, 2021 Bayani
Baltimore City Council Member Sharon Middleton, at the request of the Baltimore Cuba Resolution Committee, introduced City Council Bill No. 21-0048R, “Request for Federal Action — End the Embargo Against Cuba,” on June 8, 2021. […]